Provocation

Provocation. In law no provocation whatever can render homicide justifiable, but it Generally speak-ing, words do not amount to sufficient provocation to reduce homicide to manslaughter. To reduce homicide upon provocation to manslaughter, the wounding, etc., must have been inflicted immedia-tely upon the provocation being given and before anger has had time to subside, and the provocation must be of a kind which would deprive an ordinary man of self-control. See ASSAULT.